Nice fish! Good find. Hope you have a good time looking after it etc etc

L066 I believe. Look at picture number 7 on the profile for the L066 and they look the same

It is a gibbiceps
I agree with Silurus
Very nice Plecs they are, not the most extravagent or rare but look amazing especially when nearer full size!

Turn the lights out in the room and just shime a torch into an open space in the tank
put bloodworm into the tank and once it has thawed place it in the torch light and wait for him to come out and snap some pics of it

OK, well I was wondering as I am trying to sex some Queen Arabesques and thats a great help! Thanks

I need to know what odontodes excactly are. if anyone can explain fully what they are and provide a picture showing a Plec clearly with and clearly without odontodes I would be very grateful

So weekly water changes of how many gallons? This is a 15 gallon tank by the way and I will be getting 3. About a 40% water change each week? for the water added to the tank, does it have to be treated with Aqua + to dechlorinate etc or no? On the shane`s world article it says that for water changes ...

So I will add a tile cave, the same as barbie had when she bred some and put that next to the Rio 1100, good???

on shane`s world it says that they would breed within 2 weeks of adding a 1200 l/hour powerhead. Do you think i should get a Rio 1100 Powerhead or Rio 800???

Rio 1100
l/hour 1451

Rio 800
l/hour 800

Rio Pump Features


Energy Efficient Design
Fully Submersible
Quiet Operation
Low Heat ...

I am thinking of getting 3 Queen Arabesques, hopefully 1 Male and 2 Females and breeding them in a 15 UK Gallon tank. They will be with 5 Silvertip Tetras. Would this be ok? What help can you offer?

Looks like I wil just have to try breeding other fish to keep one then. Wish mke luck!

Try it and find out seems the only way to find out the answer for you

I guessing that Cardinals sleep on the substrate like most Tetras do at night and then when Mr Humbug Catfish comes out at night he will gobble them all up and no Cardinals left, try maybe a schooling fish that gets larger than cardinals and doesn`t sleep on the bottom

Aint we on about a Mystus species though? Not a Syno?

I know that in the UK if it is an animal like Crayfish, lobster, shrimp etc etc which have an exo skeleton they can be fed to animals but any other animals like fish cant.

By normal shrimp I was on about just shrimp you can buy from the counter in supermarkets. I was thinking I could use crickets ...

Well the last time the LFS had chaca in they were 1inch, probably less. Would maybe having shrimp work and they just slowly wein off norm shrimp onto shrimp you get from supermarkets?

Ok, thanks for the information.

I was going to do it before but now as I have a spare tank I will try as soon as I get a Chaca into my LFS. I will keep the tank running and change it to sand asap and keep the 3 Gourami and 1 Golden Sucking loach in til the last minute.

I am afraid I can`t do ...

The title says it all really.

I have an empty 15g tank and was wondering about a Chaca chaca to go into it.

I have enquired before with not much luck so will start this topic again as the last time I tried was a few months back.

Would have to agree, Kryptus minor aka Glass Catfish

well the picture link aint working for me but as Caol believes it is a Fetherfin I am gonna ask some questions.

Featherfins are known for there fin (hint in the name!!!) and does your Syno have this kind of fin???

also, how big is your Fetherfin? They change pattern at different stages of there ...

Hi, mine is still doing great. I bought mine for £20 and mine is about 4 inches, now my LFS is charging £49 for a 2incher! I think I was lucky. The only problem is they don`t eat algae as good as I was hoping, I will just have to scrub it off.

Well my LFS is way overcharging but i would still like to get one. Maybe if I see a small one I will

Yeah. Is that a good price for one?

It was black with white spots all over and the tail had like pieces coming off it on the top and bottom of the fin. It was also £100+ and was 6-8inches

Do they eat algae?

I just want so more info on this fish because I have one and I have rad the profile so any additional info would be good.

Any Plec that gets large, you could also go for maybe a Girraffecatfish or a Pseudo. Niger

My LFS has 3 Gold Nugget Plecs and was wondering what they are like? They will go into my 55g with my other fish and I do water changes every week. Nitrates at .5 ppm. Ammonia and Nitrite nil. I just want to know more about them as the site doesn't hvae any info for L081. My LFS said they grow to 5 ...

I know when stressed they go blotchy and he doesn't come out much but last night I took a torch and he seemed a bit blotchy, would that just be the stress of the torch or could it be something else, he looks fine otherwise and during the day he hides in the driftwood and he doesn't seem blotchy ...

Anybody else got any suggestions for an algae eater? We would also like to know more info on the fish?